From owner-freebsd-chat Sun May 14 18:28:15 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mail.bfm.org (mail.bfm.org [216.127.218.26]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 693F237B85E for ; Sun, 14 May 2000 18:28:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from redprince@redprince.net) Received: from WhizKid (r0.bfm.org [216.127.220.96]) by mail.bfm.org (Post.Office MTA v3.5.3 release 223 ID# 0-52399U2500L250S0V35) with SMTP id org; Sun, 14 May 2000 20:29:00 -0500 Message-Id: <3.0.6.32.20000514202750.008c7790@mail85.pair.com> X-Sender: whizkid@mail85.pair.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.6 (32) Date: Sun, 14 May 2000 20:27:50 -0500 To: "Jonathan M. Bresler" From: "G. Adam Stanislav" Subject: Re: Why are people against GNU? WAS Re: 5.0 already? Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <20000514150551.8232A37B6A2@hub.freebsd.org> References: <3.0.6.32.20000514084158.0089fb50@mail85.pair.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 08:05 14-05-2000 -0700, Jonathan M. Bresler wrote: > please, a little perspective. GPL and Stallman are not evil. >Clearly do not agree with them, but debasing the meaning of the word >evil is the wrong thing to do. Consider some of the evil behaviors >people have engaged in, and compare them to the GPL and Stallman. The >same word should not be used to describe both. Once a person >characterized those that have different views as evil, discussion is >no longer reasonable and people begin to turn to other methods to deal >with what they have determined to be evil. It's all relative. It is not about disagreeing. I believe GPL to be destructive and dangerous. Whether that is Stallman's intent is irrelevant. If we just sit quietly and do nothing, GPL can cause serious damage to the future of programming. My use of the dictum had nothing to do with religion (as further discussion seems to imply). For what it's worth, I did not say Stallman was (or was not) evil. I do perceive the effects of GPL as destructive. Adam To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message